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Friday, January 17, 2014

Episode 157 A Quince Christmas

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Hi Paula,I really enjoy your podcast and want to
comment on the monarchs. I have grown several varieties of milkweed for many
years and have had some success attracting monarch caterpillars but iit was not
until I planted the silky or tropical milkweed (Ascepias curassavica) that my
property seemed to become a breeding ground for monarchs! I also have seen fewer
monarchs this year and for the 1st year since planting the silky milkweed have
had no caterpillars. I planted a garden at our local Headstart and had included
silky milkweed. I was heartened recently upon visiting and found many monarch
caterpillars. The children were so excited. They also had so much fun blowing
the silky seeds into the air.
My family & I are originally from Chicago but moved to Pennsylvania when I
was in 1st grade. I keep moving east & now live in New Jersey.
I always look forward to your podcasts!

Lucy

From RebeccaH on our board

Thanks so much, Paula
for your excellent video on how to do the U-Boat knot. I have queued the Magic
cake Shawl, but haven’t started it yet. I am still in the stage of
collecting sock yarn in a bowl to see what I have. However, I found your
instructions for the knot so easy to remember, that I have already used it a
couple of times in my Lacy Karius
which I am knitting from a frogged sock project. It really does work, and makes
a strong knot. Even if you did not invent it, you publicized it and made it
easier for people to do, and a nice way to use leftover yarn. It’s like Al Gore
and the internet. He never claimed to have invented it, but he promoted it and
got more funding for it, which got more people using it.

Events

Whirlwind Socks
by Nicole Montgomery.Proceeds will go
to tornado relief in Washington IL.$4.99

Team Captains are Prairiegl and
Windybrookspinne.We have a banner
ravatar by cperrine.We are set!

Don’t be afraid to jump in!I’m not even up to speed on how it works
entirely but we will figure it out.It’s
not that hard.I think you find a
project and fit it into a category or sport.

Nature Notes

During the very cold weather we had recently we shut off our
porch/sunroom to conserve on heat.It
has been closed since before Christmas.When the weather got to a balmy 51 degrees recently we opened up the
porch.Oh, Porch, how I have missed
you!I am sitting at the table by the
window wearing my Esjan, a shawl by Stephen West.It is not that cold outside, about 36 F, but
the wind is blowing so fiercely that I watch the platform feeder on the pole
sway back and forth dramatically.The
birds are crowding the feeder, hanging onto their perch while searching out
their favorite seeds.In the past few
minutes I’ve seen a Red-Bellied Woodpecker, White breasted Nuthatch, Black
Capped Chickadees and many Goldfinches. A squirrel is squatting on a big knot
on the locust tree, his tail above him to ward off the wind.Patches of snow are scattered throughout the
woods and there is still some ice in Oak Creek.On our board Affinity said that she is cheered and warmed by knowing
that Mourning Cloak butterflies are out in these winter woods, somehow
surviving the snow and cold.

Finches and Cardinal feeding.

We had snow this morning, a short snow shower with giant
pillows of snow swirling.It was a heavy
snowfall but lasted only long enough to add about ½ inch.At 1 PM it is nearly half melted.

Female Cardinal in flight.

In other birds news this week we had sighting of a
Red-headed woodpecker.

Now a few days later on this gray Thursday afternoon, snow
is beginning to fall.I am wrapped up in
my beautiful Quaker
Ridge Shawlette by Susan B Anderson.I used Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill sport weight.It is warming me both inside and out. You may
be able to hear the wind occasionally.

I’m getting hooked on cowls.What is your favorite length for a cowl?I like different lengths for different types of weather.

The Blethering Room

From EmmyZuck

This morning I walked on the treadmill because I was nervous about
getting outside in the very cold temp we are having today (currently 3 F, which
I realize may be balmy for you!). Then I listened to your most recent podcast
and how you bundle up to walk in. The extreme cold. I seem to able to keep my
head and body warm, but not so much with my fingers and toes.
How do you do it? Do you wear winter boots? Sneakers with three pairs of socks?
Two layers of gloves or mittens or both? I’d appreciate any tips you can give
because I so much prefer walking outdoors whenever possible. Do you walk in the
road? The sidewalks around here don’t clear too well, because even in NJ the
snow clearance isn’t that effective or efficient – but the traffic can get
pretty heavy too.

I wear sock liner, heavy socks, and sometimes boots.On my hands I wear cheap stretchy gloves and
pull my coat sleeves over my hands.Then
I plug the armhole with a mitten or wrister.Sometimes I use handwarmers.

1 comment:

Hi Paula, Love your podcast. Maybe "cozy" is not used as a verb in the midwest but we use it here in New England, as in "let's cozy up and read a book" or "let's cozy up by the fire." The English language is so regional, isn't it?